{"id":61943,"date":"2023-11-03T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/election-cake-bake-off-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:30:34","slug":"election-cake-bake-off-2023","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/calendar\/election-cake-bake-off-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION CAKE BAKE-OFF 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><b>November 4, 2023 from 1:00 \u2013 4:00 pm<br \/><\/b><\/strong><strong><b><em><i>This event is FREE and open to the public.\u00a0<\/i><\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for a celebration and some sweet competition! Join Connecticut\u2019s Old State House for the\u00a0<em><i>second annual<\/i><\/em>\u00a0Election Cake Bake-Off.\u00a0Help us revive a long-lost Connecticut tradition that deserves a come back. In the 18th and 19th centuries Election Day combined voting with parties, libations, parades, and cake! Stores sold special Election Cake ingredients to women who transformed them into spicy cakes for crowds gathered to celebrate voting at the Old State House and other sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Come sample cakes, observe celebrity judging, enjoy music, and gear up for voting on Tuesday, November 7<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0Connecticut pastry chefs and bakers have been challenged to win over the taste buds of a panel of judges who will proclaim which confection shall be the official Connecticut Election Cake of 2023. Celebrity judges include:<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Jenna D\u2019Amico<\/b><\/strong>, 2022 Election Cake Bake-Off Winner<br \/><strong><b>Alex P. Taylor<\/b><\/strong>, Senior Community Manager at Yelp Connecticut<br \/><strong><b>David Milton<\/b><\/strong>, food reviewer for \u201cthedamgram\u201d on Instagram and \u201cthedamtok\u201d on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><i>How the contest works:\u00a0<\/i>Each competitor registering to compete will create a non-partisan, election-themed cake that they must be able to carry into the building by themselves, without assistance. Cakes will be judged\u00a0 on presentation, creativity, and taste.\u00a0Bakers can register for the competition\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/oshbakeoff2023\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of Connecticut\u2019s Old State House \u201cGo Big. VoteLocal.\u201d Series.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0On street parking is available. Parking at State House Square Garage, 55 Market Street, is just steps away from Connecticut\u2019s Old State House and is only $5 with a validated ticket.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 4, 2023 from 1:00 \u2013 4:00 pmThis event is FREE and open to the public.\u00a0 It\u2019s time for a celebration and some sweet competition! Join Connecticut\u2019s Old State House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-61943","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Connecticut&#039;s Old State House","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61951,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/61943\/revisions\/61951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61943"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/osh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=61943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}